Vocabulary Units 1-6 Test, Level C
Authored by Heather Mohler
English
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.
What does enterprising most likely mean as it is used in the paragraph above?
cautious
diffident
neutral
energetic
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.
What does prodigious most likely mean as it is used in the paragraph above?
average
obscure
tremendous
flexible
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.
In this paragraph, collaborated means about the same as which of the words below?
worked quietly
worked together
worked creatively
worked alone
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Baekeland soon became obsessed with soluable resins, and he and Thurlow experimented with these products. They developed a phenol-formaldehyde shellac called Novolak, but it was not successful. In 1907, Baekeland altered his focus from created a wood coating to infusing resin into wood to strengthen it.
What is the meaning of obsessed as it is used in the paragraph above?
concerned
reminded
repulsed
preoccupied
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Just when Baekeland believed that he had come close to creating the resin he needed, he heated this substance in a pressure cooker known as a "bakelizer" - and a hard, moldable plastic was formed. Baekeland realized the new substance had potential. Bakelite was the first plastic that held its shape after being heated, and Baekeland received a patent for Bakelite in 1909. In 1910, Baekeland's laboratory was not ample enough for his company's semicommercial production; consequently, he founded the General Bakelite Company in 1910 to manufacture and market Bakelite. Bakelite marketed itself as "The Material of a Thousand Uses."
Which word means the OPPOSITE of ample in the paragraph above?
inadequate
inconsiderate
inarticulate
indeterminate
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 4 pts
assert
to support, nourish, keep up
genial
to exclude from a group, banish, send away
sustain
to declare or state as truth, maintain, defend
ostracize
pleasantly, cheerful, or warm
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 4 pts
jurisdiction
bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures
blase
great suffering, distress, or pain
ornate
elaborately decorated
anguish
an area of authority or control
Tags
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6
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